This is a Dashless movie of Mega Man X in which we choose not to utilize dashes at all during the run. It is similar to something like the Password Glitch movie except includes all the rest of the stages.
Game objectives
- Emulator used: BizHawk 2.10
- Takes Damage to Save Time
- Heavy Luck Manipulation
Comments
Perhaps the biggest change to the game as a result of no dashing is we have to utilize a trick known as slope hopping. When running up a slope, X will slow down even if you were to jump in that direction. But if you were to run down a slope you would gain speed. Whenever X jumps he will preserve whatever speed value was set on him previously, which even includes if he changes directions mid-air.
So when we go up slopes, we turn the other direction and jump so we can get the slope speed and it saves a bit of time overall that we would have lost from no dashing.
Stage by stage comments
Intro stage.
Very straight forward, we shoot the big bee enemies as fast as we can without falling down in the ditches. We also utilize a few slope boosts midway in the run.
Vile's behavior can be tricky to get right, we want him to lunge at us so we can make him jump backwards. He will start shooting the electric balls when you are at low enough health which is why we took lots of damage on the way over.
Chill Penguin
Starting with this stage first, this stage has a lot of utilizations of the slope boosts. it took quite awhile for me to get the hang of these the first time around.
Eventually we reach the first upgrade station, which is forced on the player so we have to get the dash boots even if we don't plan on using the dash. Just as long as X doesn't immediately do a dash after getting the boots......we........should be.................good?
......................................oh.
InputEvelution: X immediately did a dash after getting the boots. Rejecting.